Ticket-delivering apparatus.



11. SANNEMAN & B. s. MAYLAND.

TICKET DBLIVERING APPARATUS.

APPLIOATION FILED APB. 16, 1910.

989,647. Patented Apr.18,1911.

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TICKET DELIVERING APPARATUS.

APPLIQATION FILED APB. 16, 1910.

Patented Apr. 18, 1911.

for operation by the ticket seller.

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW TICKET-DELIVERING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 18, 1911.

Application led April 16, 1910. Serial No. 555,844.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DreDnIcH SANNE- MAN and EDWIN S. Mariano, citizens of the United Sta-tes, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Delivering Appa ratus, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved device for delivering tickets which will prevent the ticket seller from collusively obtaining previously sold tickets and reselling them.

In carrying out this invention, we provide a device for use at the ticket sellers window, which has a glass covered receptacle open away from the ticket seller, so that it cannot be reached by the seller, but which opening will be in front of and convenient to the purchaser.

A further object is to provide a feeding roller or block which will automatically take up a variance of length of the tickets of a Strip that the same length of ticket will be delivered to the knife.

We provide a reel of tickets in an inclosed box, and suitable driving mechanism adapted to be controlled by the seller to advance such tickets into the compartment before referred to in dierent quantities 1, 2, 3 or 4, etc. We provide cut-off mechanism to sever the tickets from the strip operated by the ticket seller.

y In our preferred construction, we prefer to providea second set of tickets on the opposite side from the iirst set referred to, providing independent delivering devices for control by the seller for each delivering device. In each instance, we provide separate cut-oft mechanism, both however of which may be operated from a common operating bar adjacent to the sellers hand.

The scope of our invention will be pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of our improved device with the doors to the ticket containing cabinet open. Fig. 2 is a sect-ion drawn to an larged scale on line 2-2 Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of the upper part of the device, showing the levers and cut-o' bar Fig. 4

- is a top plan of our improved device with cover plate removed. Fig.4 5 is a section taken on line 5-5 Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a section taken on line 6 6 Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a detail of the knife cut-off. Fig. 8 is a section on line 8-8 of the resilient detent for holding the delivery lever in its proper. position. Fig. 10 is a side elevation of the block 15. Fig. 11 is a plan view of Fig. 10.

As shown in the drawings, this device consists of a box or compartment l provided with a pair of hinged doors 2-3. Within the box on a spindle 4 there is mounted a paper reel of tickets 6. On the door 3 there is mounted a similar ticket reel 7 with its strip of tickets 8, so that when the two doors are closed the reels will occupy a position with their axes parallel as shown in Fig. 2. Above the compartment 1 there is provided a central compartment 9 with an open front 10 facing t-he purchaser, and away from the ticket seller. This compartment 9 is preferably provided with a glass cover or roof 11, that the ticket seller may see what takes place within the compartment 9.

The compartment 9 is provided with a pair of open windows l0', shown in Fig. 8,

through each of which a strip of tickets may be passed. Each window 10 is provided with a stationary plate 12, and a cut-off knife 13. As there is a window 10 on each side of the compartment 9, and as there are two cut 01T knives 13 extending rearwardly through openings to be grasped by the operator, we prefer to connect these knives by a common bar 14 directly in front of the ticket seller, so that the bar upon its operation will cut the tickets from either side. To cause the tickets to be delivered through a window 10 we may provide any proper driving mechanism, but as shown in the drawings, we prefer to provide a block 15 mounted on a shaft 16 extending through the rear wall of the box, and conveniently disposed to the sellers left hand.

To insure proper feed, a polygonal block 15 four sided in this instance, is provided against the tickets on which a roller 18 presses. Each side of the block to the average length of the tickets, which are scored in general practice. A rchute 33 leads from near the rotating block 15 to the window 10. Pins 34 are provided at the corners of the block to engage the score is equalv Fig. 4. Fig. 9 is a detail Von the shaft 16 is provided to rotate the shaft to advance the block 15 one, two, three or four steps, thus delivering one, two, three, or four tickets into the compartment, so that the cut-off knife may sever such tickets, which tickets when severed may be taken out of the .delivery compartment 9 by the purchaser.

To insure proper delivery of the tickets from the block 15, we provide a roller 18 mounted on the end of a strong spring 19, fast in a bell crankV lever 20, secured to the bracket 21 at one side of `the compartment. An adjusting tension -screw 22 may be provided to increase the frict-ional Contact of the rollers 18 and block 15 upon the tickets.

We prefer to provide the lever 17 with a handle 23, having a spring 24, and a pin 25 in a recess of the handle operated thereby, the pin adapted to drop into pockets or recesses 26 in an indicating plate 27 secured to the rear of the device, and through the center of which the shaft 16 turns so that the operator by sense of hearing or by feeling the pin 25 click into any one of the pockets or recesses, will known how many tickets she 'has delivered linto the compartment 9.

llVe provide on the shaft 16 a ratchet wheel 28 prevented from turning in one direction by a pawl 29, but free to turn in thc proper direction for the delivery of tickets. "We also provide counting arms 30 on a spider mounted fast on the shaft 16 to en- O'ag-e the spider 31 of an ordinary counting device indicated by '32,

In operation the left hand tickets may be 5ctickets and the right hand tickets 10c tickets. The purchaser presents himself in front of the ticket sellers window, and asks, for instance; for two 5c tickets and one 10c ticket. r1`he operator immediately throws the levers; the left hand lever until she hears two clicks, or feels two clicks of the pin, the right hand lever until she hears one click; then with either one of her hands, which 'may still have hold of a lever, she quickly lowers the cut-off bar and cuts off the three tickets desired, accepting the money from the purchaser through the window, but at no time beingvauthorized to deliver any tickets through such window.

j In carrying out this invention, details of construction may be varied from those shown, and yet the essence of the invention be retained; some parts might be employed without others, and new features thereof might be combined with elements old in the art in diverse ways, although the herein def scribed type is regarded as embodying substantial improvements over such modifications.

As many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodiments of the invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted in an illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is furthermore desired to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which as a matter of language might be said to fall therebetween.

lVe claim as our invention:

1. The herein described ticket selling apparatus, comprising a compartment for the receipt of tickets to be' obtained by. purchasers, a compartment for containing a strip of tickets, ticket delivering mechanism, a shaft therefor, said shaft extending outside of the compartment, a Alever for operating said shaft, and a cut-off knife, and its handle, the handle being adjacent to said lever, the driving mechanism comprising a polygon-al block and a friction producing wheel bearing upon the tickets passing 4around said block, mechanism for preventing the backward rot-ation of said shaft.-

2. A ticket delivering apparatus comprising a compartment open on one side, provided with a pair of windows on opposite sides, ticket delivering mechanism adapted to deliver strips of `tickets one to each window, operating handles for controlling said ticket delivery extending rearwardly, and in front of the ticket seller, a -pair of cut-off knives adjacent to said windows, a common operating handle adjacent to the seller, connecting both said knives, an operating handle lying between said levers.

3. The herein described ticket selling apparatus comprising a ticket window, having a hand opening through which money may be received and change made, a platform below the hand `opening and on the ticket sellers side of the said window, a compartment below the platform open to the public, but closed to the operator, a ticket delivering compartment below said platform, and provided with openings to the said compartmentopen to the public, continuous strip ticket delivering mechanism within-said second compartment, an operating handle -adjacent to the seller adapted to deliver tickets from the said second compartment Vto the first compartment.

4. The herein described ticket selling apparatus comprising a ticket window having a hand opening through which money may vided with openings to the said be received and change made, a platform below the hand opening and on the ticket sellers side of the said window, a compartment below the platform open to the public, but closed to the operator, a ticket delivering compartment below said platform, and procompartment open to the public, continuous strip ticket delivering mechanism within said second compartment, an operating handle adjacent to the seller adapted to deliver tickets from the said second compartment to the lirst compartment, and a cut-off mechanism operable by the seller.

5. rThe herein described ticket selling apparatus comprising a ticket window, having a hand opening through which money may be received and change made, a platform below the hand opening and on the ticket sellers side of the said window, a compartment below the platform open to the public but closed to the operator, a ticket delivering compartment below said platform, and provided with openings to the said compartclosed to the operator, a ticket delivering mechanism within said second compartment, an operating handle adjacent to the seller adapted to deliver tickets from the said second compartment to the first compartment, the platform below the ticket window and above the compartment open to the public being of glass.

Signed at Brooklyn, New York, this 15th day of April, in the year 1910.

DIEDRICH SANNEMAN. EDVIN S. MAYLAND.

Witnesses:

JOHN P. GRIEBEL, HENRY STRIBING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

